This interesting, local-oriented, article in today’s Washington Post provides insight into the nature of how bootleg films make into onto the street within weeks, or days, after a film’s premiere. In a sting operation, FBI agents and DC police nabbed a warehouse distribution ring — for the second time in one year.
The pirates, operating under the name Y Y Enterprises, traffic in typical hand-held digital camera reproductions of films made in theaters. The article notes that it’s pretty cheap to set up a major bootleg operation. The cost of the cameras are pretty cheap and a mass DVD burner costs only “several thousand dollars.”
Cynthia Brumfield at 4:52 PM|Comments(0)
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